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title: Downgrading to a free user account plan
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import shared from '~/shared.js'

<Note>

**Note:** This article only applies to users of the public npm registry.

</Note>

If you have a paid user account, but no longer need private packages, you can downgrade your paid organization to a free organization. When you downgrade from a paid to a free organization, you will lose the ability to install and publish private packages at the end of your last paid billing cycle. Your private packages will _not_ be made publicly visible when you downgrade to a free plan.

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2. <>{shared['billing-info'].text}</>

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3. <>{shared['billing-downgrade-selection'].text}</>

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4. <>{shared['billing-downgrade-confirm'].text}</>

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